Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories
The Battle of Algiers
Spartacus Film Night
7:00pm
- 10:00pm
Thursday April 11 2013
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Taking place on unceded Coast Salish territories... Spartacus Film Nights are part of an ongoing campaign of prisoner solidarity for folks in our communities directly affected by the prison and legal industrial complex. For more information about our organizing and series of events, please check out: http://web.resist.ca/~vancouverg20support/
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One of the most influential political films in history, The Battle of Algiers, by Gillo Pontecorvo, vividly re-creates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, women plant bombs in cafés, and French soldiers resort to torture to break the will of the insurgents. Shot on the streets of Algiers in documentary style, the film is a case study in modern warfare, with its terrorist attacks and the brutal techniques used to combat them. Pontecorvo’s tour de force has astonishing relevance today.
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By Donation, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Accessibility Info: Spartacus Books is on the ground/street level. Both the outer door and the bathroom door are 800mm (31.49 inches) in width. In the gender neutral bathroom, there is one bar directly to the left of the toilet and one bar directly behind it. The inside of Spartacus is all one level except for a slight bump (about 1mm in height) close to the back.
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